Tag Archives: stereo

where have all the cameras gone II

Toronto. Short answer: to our spring fair, being held May 25th, 2025. Long answer: far more complicated. Cameras from dry plates on can be easily be found, especially at our events. Earlier daguerreotype and wet-plate cameras are much harder to … Continue reading

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home brew in 3D

Toronto. From time to time we all want to leap on the 3D bandwagon and do some personal shots. In issue 23-3 the late Stan White shows us how he created a 5×7 3D camera. Stan’s article is titled, “Making … Continue reading

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another view …

  Toronto. Stereos have often been used to give a dimensional view to photos. In issue 23-3, Stan White announces a “Treasure Trove of Gorgeous Stereo Daguerreotypes Uncovered”. Stan wrote the article with ‘photographs and research by Bill Ivy’. The … Continue reading

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mighty mouse in stereo

Toronto. At our fall 1996 fair, the late Bob Lansdale took a number of interesting items back to his ‘mini studio’ and photographed them for issue 22-4 of the journal. In the case of the tiny viewer at left, Bob … Continue reading

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the Russians are …

Toronto. … coming, the Russians are coming  – as Canadian Producer/Director Norman Jewison titled his 1966 humorous movie. A fitting title for this post about Stan White’s exploits to make  panoramic 3D photos using a co-joined pair of  Krasnogorsk FT2 … Continue reading

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aptly chosen words …

Toronto. Various photographers have chosen to pick popular city locations which were photographed many decades ago, and show what they look like today given roughly the same field of view, etc. In our journal issue 22-1, the late Stan White … Continue reading

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under the double ‘U’

Toronto. Before television ever existed and even before movies gained any traction, we had stereo B&W cards made by Underwood & Underwood. As a child in the mid 1940s, I  remember visiting a relative’s farm near-by and being enthralled by … Continue reading

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Hey! … four eyes!

Toronto. Little school kids can be unintentionally cruel. Any kid who falters or has an obvious medical issue gets an immediate ‘nick name’. For example, children who have corrective glasses are almost automatically called ‘four eyes’! In the first decades … Continue reading

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the French have a name for it …

Toronto. … Le Verascope. When the dry plate process and later film became common place, would-be photographers no longer needed to understand the art. Hence the art opened to the far wider world of amateurs. The down side as the … Continue reading

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holy stereo realist Batman!

Toronto. When we got our new newsletter editor, Patrick Gunn, we also got our new stereo mavin! Now a Torontonian, Patrick hails from BC, and brings with him a wealth of newsletter ideas, mock-ups, and plans, plus a burning interest … Continue reading

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